Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Life Hacker podcast. It is October 18th, and this week we are talking about Verizon's latest attempt to sell your personal data. The best productivity tips used by evil dictators and getting free out-of-warranty repairs on your gadgets. We're also answering your questions about making your hard drives wireless, converting a pair of USB headphones into regular ones,

and microwaving cheap pizza the right way.

And as usual, we'll be going through our favorite downloads and tips of the week, so let's get started.

So let's get started. Hey guys, welcome to the show and happy evil week.

Yeah.

For those of you who haven't been reading the site, it is Evil Week on LifeHacker, where we share all sorts of evil and sketchy tips and tricks for getting things done, or how to protect yourself from those who are evil and sketchy.

Yeah, that's the real, that's the goodness behind the whole fun that we're doing.

So welcome to our somewhat evil show.

I'm Whitson Gordon.

I'm Adam Dodges.

And we've got Thorne Klausowski joining us via Skype.

Hey, Thorin.

Hey, Thorn.

All right.

So, our first piece of news today is not about being evil, particularly, but about someone else being evil, Verizon.

Verizon, for those of you, those of you that may remember about a year ago, Verizon started this

new initiative where they're tracking everything you do on your phone. The apps you use,

the websites you search for and the websites you visit on your phone, everything, you know, your location.

In order to sell that, right, in order to sell that information to advertisers. Well, this week that actually started selling that information to advertisers, so the uproar

began anew.

Luckily, just as last year, there's a way to opt out of having your information sold off.

If you just go to your My Verizon Wireless page

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